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Originally posted by Grimstad
reply to post by tezzajw
I am only versed in the topic of Lioyde. The independent verification is in all the physical evidence.
Originally posted by tezzajw
Originally posted by Grimstad
The only thing fraudulent here is your assertion based on only partial testimony.
Correction - Lloyde's assertion and his testimony that no one else can support.
Supply another witness who saw the light pole in the taxi. Explain why Lloyde changes his story to put his taxi further North than where the photographic evidence places him.
Do it all while not mentioning the C-130 plane, as that's really off topic for this thread. I'm sure that you can find lots and lots of other threads where the C-130 is crucial to the discussion. Maybe in your short time on ATS, you still haven't learnt to stay on topic?
Disclaimer: The troll in me must inform you that what I type may or may not reflect what I actually think or believe, then again - maybe it does. Don't quote me on that.
Originally posted by Grimstad
Either you are trolling or you are not paying attention.
Lloyde and the C130 don't really have anything to do with each other.
Originally posted by Grimstad
Your witnesses clearly state there was a 2nd plane marked USAF. In your video you included a picture of a C 130. The C 130 is specifically designed to fly low and slow.
posted by Grimstad
reply to post by SPreston
posted by SPreston
the aircraft engines were inches off the lawn as shown in the official parking lot security videos.
Actually the parking lot videos show no such thing. There is only one frame that shows the plane prior to the explosion. This is to be expected since general purpose systems are generally set to 15 fps or less to save hard drive space. For something like a driveway you can expect frame rates set in single digits.
In that frame, the only thing that can be seen is the top half of the tail and I think a little bit of the nose. It is hidden behind a pedestal at the parking lot gate. However the smoke from the damaged engine (the lowest part of the plane) can be seen and it is feet off the ground, not inches.
posted by SPreston
The official speed of Flight 77 was 535 mph (784 feet per second) and officially, after hitting the light poles, the aircraft engines were inches off the lawn as shown in the official parking lot security videos.
page 14
3.3 SECURITY CAMERA PHOTOGRAPHS
A Pentagon security camera located near the northwest corner of the
building recorded the aircraft as it approached the building. Five photographs (figures 3.3 through 3.7), taken approximately one second apart, show the approaching aircraft and the ensuing fireball associated with the initial impact.The first photograph (figure 3.3) captured an image of the aircraft when it was approximately 320 ft (approximately 0.42 second) from impact with the west wall of the Pentagon.Two photographs
(figures 3.3 and 3.7), when compared, seem to show that the top of the
fuselage of the aircraft was no more than approximately 20 ft above the
ground when the first photograph of this series was taken.
www.fire.nist.gov...
Originally posted by Grimstad
Well we have many photos showing the poles all around.
Several that show Lloydes car with a pole and it’s related debris laying by Lloydes car.
We have very clear pictures of Lloydes windshield (thanks to Craig) showing the hole in the windshield with a clearly defined depression in the drivers side of the break showing the pole was leaning out at an angle towards that side,
Lloyde said at a couple points in the interviews that it was resting on the dashboard and and went into the back seat, which would explain why it wasn’t resting on the hood, thus no scratches. This is crucial to the whole concept that the pole didn’t actually go through his windshield.
When Craig took pictures of the back seat the evidence was right there in front of him that the pole hit the back seat The front passenger seat is totally trashed He CHOSE TO IGNORE CRUCIAL EVIDENCE BECAUSE IT DIDN’T MATCH HIS THEORY.
The deeper I dig, the more fraud I find.
posted by Grimstad
reply to post by tezzajw
I count approximately 160 witnesses and he chooses 13 that fit his theory
That’s less than 10%.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elfwe have hundreds of witnesses who state where they saw the plane coming in from. Only 14 claim the see the plane flying North of the gas station.
And even those reports state they saw the plane hit the Pentagon.
Those 14 witnesses were also interviewed a few YEARS after the event. Memories tend to get mixed up and vague after a while.
The other witnesses accounts were taken either the same day or a few days after, when they were still quite fresh.
As far as Mr. England goes, I still think he's a bit nutty, and seems pretty damned confused to me. I agree that harassing, trying to twist his words or put them in his mouth, ect, are pretty low tactics that border on bullying and harassment.
posted by LaBTop
One possibility, however, is definitely closed for interpretation.
That plane flew North of Citgo, and crossed Washington Boulevard just in front of the helipad situated on the Pentagon lawn.
And that is what Lloyde still seems to remember clearly, that he was in front of those signs (and with that high sloping down concrete wall to his left [EDIT: to his right!]), when he registered that plane crossing over in front of him.
That concrete wall is the western boundary of the cemetery where the Military lays its heroes to rest.
And the end of that sloping down wall or a few meters further is exactly the spot where I have shown to you, Craig, and many other readers, that some of the Pentagon witnesses have first seen it too. Witnesses which have been used for many years already as proof by our opponents, that the plane flew on a Southern approach path, when I proved consistently that these people were clearly describing themselves being at or near the Pentagon helipad on the South or Northbound lanes of Washington Boulevard when the plane crossed over there.
I forgot the name of that thread, I think it had the name of Terry Morin in it.
SPreston will remember and help out as usual, I hope.
Graig, don't get so sidetracked by these freshly arriving opponents, they have not read and seen as many threads and videos as we, very old school readers here, have.
We really are at a point in time that the baffling absence of main stream media attending these threads needs addressed, and we should try to find ways of rubbing it under their noses.
posted by LaBTop
Especially this remark of him should be scrutinized: “”Then the plane, which was taking out telephone and power lines on its way in, hit the building. “”
He reports the plane over the road he was on, Washington Boulevard, as flying so low one could have touched its bottom by standing on a car.
He was on that road for sure:
“”He remembers the helipad the plane flew over before smacking into the Pentagon was close enough to him that ''I could have thrown a baseball at it and hit it.'' “”
Pay especially attention to him reporting that the plane flew over the helipad.
Father Stephen McGraw was driving to a graveside service at Arlington National Cemetery the morning of Sept. 11, when he mistakenly took the Pentagon exit onto Washington Boulevard, putting him in a position to witness American Airlines Flight 77 crash into the Pentagon. "The traffic was very slow moving, and at one point just about at a standstill," said McGraw, a Catholic priest at St. Anthony Parish in Falls Church. "I was in the left hand lane with my windows closed. I did not hear anything at all until the plane was just right above our cars." McGraw estimates that the plane passed about 20 feet over his car, as he waited in the left hand lane of the road, on the side closest to the Pentagon. "The plane clipped the top of a light pole just before it got to us, injuring a taxi driver, whose taxi was just a few feet away from my car. "I saw it crash into the building," he said. "My only memories really were that it looked like a plane coming in for a landing. I mean in the sense that it was controlled and sort of straight. That was my impression," he said. "There was an explosion and a loud noise and I felt the impact. I remember seeing a fireball come out of two windows (of the Pentagon). I saw an explosion of fire billowing through those two windows. "He literally had the stole in one hand and a prayer book in the other and in one fluid motion crossed the guardrail," said Mark Faram, a reporter from the Navy Times who witnessed McGraw in the first moments after the crash.
Traffic was at a standstill. I heard a rumble, looked out my driver's side window and realized that I was looking at the nose of an airplane coming straight at us from over the road (Columbia Pike) that runs perpendicular to the road I was on. The plane just appeared there- very low in the air, to the side of (and not much above) the CITGO gas station that I never knew was there. My first thought was "Oh My God, this must be World War III!" In that split second, my brain flooded with adrenaline and I watched everything play out in ultra slow motion, I saw the plane coming in slow motion toward my car and then it banked in the slightest turn in front of me, toward the heliport. In the nano-second that the plane was directly over the cars in front of my car, the plane seemed to be not more than 80 feet off the ground and about 4-5 car lengths in front of me. It was far enough in front of me that I saw the end of the wing closest to me and the underside of the other wing as that other wing rocked slightly toward the ground. I remember recognizing it as an American Airlines plane -- I could see the windows and the color stripes. And I remember thinking that it was just like planes in which I had flown many times but at that point it never occurred to me that this might be a plane with passengers. In my adrenaline-filled state of mind, I was overcome by my visual senses. The day had started out beautiful and sunny and I had driven to work with my car's sunroof open. I believe that I may have also had one or more car windows open because the traffic wasn't moving anyway. At the second that I saw the plane, my visual senses took over completely and I did not hear or feel anything -- not the roar of the plane, or wind force, or impact sounds. The plane seemed to be floating as if it were a paper glider and I watched in horror as it gently rocked and slowly glided straight into the Pentagon. At the point where the fuselage hit the wall, it seemed to simply melt into the building. I saw a smoke ring surround the fuselage as it made contact with the wall. It appeared as a smoke ring that encircled the fuselage at the point of contact and it seemed to be several feet thick. I later realized that it was probably the rubble of churning bits of the plane and concrete. The churning smoke ring started at the top of the fuselage and simultaneously wrapped down both the right and left sides of the fuselage to the underside, where the coiling rings crossed over each other and then coiled back up to the top. Then it started over again -- only this next time, I also saw fire, glowing fire in the smoke ring. At that point, the wings disappeared into the Pentagon. And then I saw an explosion and watched the tail of the plane slip into the building. It was here that I closed my eyes for a moment and when I looked back, the entire area was awash in thick black smoke.
Alan Wallace usually worked out of the Fort Myer fire station, but on Sept. 11 he was one of three firefighters assigned to the Pentagon's heliport. Along with crew members Mark Skipper and Dennis Young, Wallace arrived around 7:30 in the morning. After a quick breakfast, the 55-year-old firefighter moved the station's firetruck out of the firehouse. President Bush had used the heliport the day before: he'd motorcaded to the Pentagon, then flown to Andrews Air Force Base for a trip to Florida. Bush was scheduled to return to the Pentagon helipad later on Tuesday, Wallace says. So Wallace wanted the firetruck out of the station before Secret Service vehicles arrived and blocked its way. He parked it perpendicular to the west wall of the Pentagon. Wallace and Skipper were walking along the right side of the truck (Young was in the station) when the two looked up and saw an airplane. It was about 25 feet off the ground and just 200 yards away-the length of two football fields. They had heard about the WTC disaster and had little doubt what was coming next. "Let's go," Wallace yelled. Both men ran. Wallace ran back toward the west side of the station, toward a nine-passenger Ford van. "My plans were to run until I caught on fire," he says. He didn't know how long he'd have or whether he could outrun the oncoming plane. Skipper ran north into an open field. Wallace hadn't gotten far when the plane hit. "I hadn't even reached the back of the van when I felt the fireball. I felt the blast," he says. He hit the blacktop near the left rear tire of the van and quickly shimmied underneath. "I remember feeling pressure, a lot of heat," he says. He crawled toward the front of the van, then emerged to see Skipper out in the field, still standing. "Everything is on fire. The grass is on fire. The building is on fire. The firehouse is on fire," Wallace recalls. "There was fire everywhere. Areas of the blacktop were on fire." Wallace ran over to Skipper, who said he was OK, too. They compared injuries-burned arms, minor cuts, scraped skin. He ran back into the station to try to suit up. But he found debris everywhere. The ceiling had crumbled, there were broken lights and drywall everywhere. His boots were on fire. His fire pants filled with debris. The fire alarm was blaring.Then Wallace heard someone call from outside. "We need help over here," someone yelled. He ran back outside over to the Pentagon building and helped lower people out of a first-floor window, still some six feet off the ground. He helped 10 to 15 people to safety. Most could walk, though he helped carry one badly burned man. "He wasn't too responsive," Wallace recalls. He helped two other men drag him to the other side of the heliport then he turned around. "I've got to go back," he said. Working with a civilian, Wallace headed back to the building. He could hear more cries for help from inside. There was trash and debris everywhere. The trees were on fire. Wallace headed into the building through an open door, but couldn't find anyone else to save. "After a while I didn't hear anybody calling anymore," he says. "They probably found another way out." www.msnbc.com...
Madelyn Zakhem, executive secretary at the STC (VDOT Smart Traffic Center), had just stepped outside for a break and was seated on a bench when she heard what she thought was a jet fighter directly overhead. It wasn't. It was an airliner coming straight up Columbia Pike at tree-top level. "It was huge! It was silver. It was low -- unbelievable! I could see the cockpit. I fell to theground.... I was crying and scared". "If I had been on top of our building, I would have been close enough to reach up and catch it,"
From the view of the Navy Annex : After a few moments, Lt Gen Ron Kadish, Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization entered the Secure Conference Room to pursue the day's activities and do real work. This office, with two nice windows and a great view of the monuments, the Capitol and the Pentagon was "good digs" by any Pentagon standard. I walked in the office and stood peering out of the window looking at the Pentagon. As I stood there, I instinctively ducked at the extremely loud roar and whine of a jet engine spooling up. Immediately, the large silver cylinder of an aircraft appeared in my window, coming over my right shoulder as I faced the Westside of the Pentagon directly towards the heliport. The aircraft, looking to be either a 757 or Airbus, seemed to come directly over the annex, as if it had been following Columbia Pike - an Arlington road leading to Pentagon.
Originally posted by LaBTop
At 5:30 in the OP's video, Lloyde tries to tell Craig "I wanna tell you what happened."
But Craig was too busy with his own line of thoughts explanation, to really absorb the message immediately.
The colleague of Craig overheard Lloyde saying that however, and interrupts at 5:36 with "Tell us what happened !"